wenton to join fnatic

John "wenton" Eriksson has agreed to join fnatic on a temporary basis to replace Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer, Preparation have announced.

The 23-year-old will act as a stand-in for fnatic until Olof "olofmeister" Kajbjer has made a full recovery from his hand injury, which has kept him out of action since the quarter-finals of MLG Columbus, on April 1.

Initially, fnatic brought Niclas "PlesseN" Plessen in as a substitute, a move that many deemed risky, given his lack of competitive experience. After eight official maps, the former RUZKI member had yet to post a positive rating with the team, prompting fnatic's management to look elsewhere for a better fifth man.

wenton will play for fnatic as olofmeister's replacement

John "wenton" Eriksson, who played for teams like a2g, WinFakt and H2k Gaming during the final years of 1.6, has been plying his trade for Preparation since February, when the organisation acquired the Fan Jävla roster.

His departure comes as a huge blow to Preparation as the team are trying to qualify for the European Minor Championship. During the first qualifier for the tournament at DreamHack Tours, Preparation took 9th-16th following a 1-2 defeat against ENCE in the Round of 16.

"I want to thank Team Preparation for the time being and the chance they gave me," Eriksson said in a statement.

"But this is not an opportunity which comes along every day and Preparation respected it enought to release me.

"I have had a wounderful time with all of my team mates but everything has to come to an end.

"I apologise for the incredibly bad timing and I wish them all the best in the future and especially in the upcoming qualifiers of the Dreamhack minor."

wenton will make his first appearance for fnatic in less than an hour as the Swedish team will face Astralis in the ESL Pro League.

That doesnt mean he can't play in other teams, right? At least now he has that "fnatic" title on his history of semipro and pro player. The players that could actually say something like that are really small amount.

He will earn in that period more than in a year for his old team. Moreover he gets the chance to show his potential to the world. And one thing we know for sure: Even if he doesn't show up a team in 'murica will see some potential.

So is talent defined by age and not by potential? For a lot of players out there it is all about getting the chance and there are so few teams which would actually be an upgrade to the teams he played on and those top tier teams take in so few players (in average two players a year). Of course wenton is talented, otherwise he wouldn't be picked up by fnatic. The same goes for PlesseN, who just wasn't ready for it yet.

And by best team in the world you mean they are worse than Na'Vi, and in the last lan didnt even left the easiest group of the tournament, getting owned by... Tyloo, a not even top15 team. Ur pathetic.

Aight, makes sense, Tyloo obviously better than LG cause they won a bo1. Get your head out of your ass you pathetic fuck, LG are not the best nor will they ever be the best. Hilarious how people count fnatic out just because they are losing some online games, without their best by far player.

This is retarded. There are a lot of other talent out there who are unknown and desperately need the spotlight. Just fucking ask lekr0. He'll recommend you 10 other players from his circle.
My recommendation: Eric Torsson

NiP tried to get him, Fnatic never did. And this isn't an official recruitment, just a temporary stand in, technically he wouldn't be joining them.
Also, Dennis and KRiMZ are there, ex-teammates. Olof too, but yeah, injuried.

Fnatic have never tried to sign twist, period. That's something Fifflaren insinuated to justify for himself why such a good player could repeatedly reject his old baby who everyone loves except twist.
First of all, fnatic have only made roster changes twice ever. Olof has no relation to twist, they're not friends and haven't talked since LGB privately. So you know for damn certain he was never in the conversation to be the second man to join in 2014 with olof.
Moreover, twist was rejecting other teams because he just wanted to play with pronax. On his team. So if they ever offered him while pronax was still there he would accept in a heartbeat. He said the thing about pronax in an interview with Aftonbladet.se.
Lastly, you can be 100% sure that they would never in a million years offer him over Dennis. No on e in fnatic knows twist or has any relation with him while Dennis did.
PS. Flusha didn't even mention him in his shortlist of players they would get to replace olof if contracts were irrelevant.

Prove me wrong then, you sack of shit. Really tired of people on this forum questioning my knowledge of fnatic's players when I'm literally their biggest fan, ever (no exaggeration) and have watched hundreds and hundreds of hours of their streams and read every tweet they've ever sent out. You can call that sad and pathetic all you want, I would even agree with you that it is, but it certainly does qualify me as having way more knowledge about them than almost anyone else in the scene.
Read #433 for an actual explanation.
I may have exaggerated when I said they've never talked, because I'm sure twist might have messaged him on steam once. But there's no doubt in my mind that olof would not label twist as a friend of his unless he was trying to be polite. Because they clearly do not have a friendship and don't talk to each other. How the fuck you would even think they do is unfathomable, seeing as they've never talked in public or on any stream ever in the last 2 years.

By having watched hundreds of hours of his streams as well as him playing with his friends on other streams, like REASTEN's. Pair that with my good memory and there you go.
Over hundreds of hours, you will obviously have talked about almost everything there is to talk about because viewers are constantly asking you questions. And so obviously, he's been asked about twist as well. The answer was always just in the tone of 'I don't care much about twist' or 'I haven't known him in a long time'. Just very dismissive.
I know a lot about who's friends with who in the Swedish and Norwegian scene, and twist is just in an entirely different clique of people compared to olof. I'm sure they might have exchanged a few words at some point, but never once have they ever played together on streams voluntarily or anything like that. Whenever they've been on an FPL team they've barely acknowledged each other, etc. And when olof has been asked about him, he's been super dismissive with no real opinion on him. Because they don't have a relation.
If you know much about KRiMZ/olofm/dennis you probably know they never had close ties to twist and cype from the LGB days. They brought them in purely because they were better and less of a pain to play with than maikelele and skytten.

And earlier today, "freakazoid to stand-in at DH Austin" - sure, that's true, but most wouldn't have assumed it would be for Splyce. I think stich and MIRAA are great writers but why not "Splyce to use freakazoid at DH Austin"? And for this article, "wenton replaces PlesseN in fnatic" or "wenton joins fnatic as stand-in" would have worked better. It's their call, not mine, but I hope this doesn't become a trend.

Wenton to stand-in for fnatic
Wenton stands in for fnatic
Wenton replaces plessen
All better.
In general I remember you struggling with titles for years in instances where I could have done better. Feel free to pm me for help in the future.

Olof and krimz are not even really good friends. They hang out because they're teammates and have good in game chemistry, but irl or outside practice they're not close. Krimz is much better friends with others on fnatic like JW.

Ok then, freakshow. Maybe you should show me something that implies they're friends, then? The amount of times I've heard slightly salty 'banter' between them like olofm complaining about him not wanting to play FPL is too damn high.
But keep believing that just because they have synergy, they also get along so well IRL. Pleb with no information on fnatic.

You are probably mad because everyone knows you are lying.
I never said they were friends or not, you were the one that made that statement care to prove it? Oh no.. you can't? stfu then.
Why do fanboys live in a fantasy world where they and pros are friends? They don't give a shit about you.. They live their own life and would never share anything about it with sad little people like you.

Nothing indicates he won't. Besides, there is no one really good to get unless they spend mad money on a contract buyout, and no one good would leave their current team for a temporary other.
To get someone good they would have to tell the guy he could stay forever if he did well.

feel bad for Plessen, it's hard to soar like an eagle when you are working with turkeys, lol
which is not to say he's good, but he didn't seem much worse than the overpaid stars next to him....if Niko can carry Nikosports, then i think Fnatic may have expected too much of the kid...
to Plessen [*]

Don't get why the former most succesfull team in the world just a month ago pick up shitty players who no one knows and instead don't go for some1 else, there a ton of good swedish players who like to play as standin for fnatic.